How to Use MRSA in a Sentence

MRSA

noun
  • The compounds identified in this new study were effective at killing microbes such as MRSA in mice, right?
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
  • To make matters worse, the cut had developed a staph (MRSA) infection that could also have forced him out of the fight.
    — Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • In the first dish, which had been infused with MRSA and molecular machines, the larvae wriggled happily.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
  • Six of them proved strikingly lethal against MRSA and other resistant bacteria.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Steward said his daughter, while surfing nearby, became sick with an infection from a type of bacteria called MRSA, which is resistant to many antibiotics.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Reynolds’ research team investigated the source, looked everywhere, and finally found MRSA in the soft surface of the upholstered couch at the station house.
    — Matt Fuchs, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Orange required emergency surgery for a reinfected abscess weeks after her adoption, followed by a severe MRSA infection that left her with an open wound for 10 weeks.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
  • In the summer of 2016, dozens of the overhead units that contain the reading light and the air vent and, inside, the oxygen masks that are supposed to drop down in an emergency ended up in the MRSA.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 July 2024
  • Some develop life-threatening bacterial infections, such as MRSA.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC news, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The researchers recommended hospitals improve testing for MRSA colonization, especially at discharge, even when a patient in asymptomatic.
    — Tina Reed, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024
  • However, a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found privacy curtains can be breeding grounds for resistant bacteria such as MRSA.
    — Karina Nicholas, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Researchers also detected the presence of MRSA -- or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- a type of bacteria that is resistant to several antibiotics, in some samples.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Bacterial infections can include cat scratch disease, campylobacter, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and salmonella.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2022
  • After an unimpressive Heat summer-league run under coach Erik Spoelstra in 2006 on a roster that included current Heat assistant Chris Quinn, Gansey contracted a life-threatening staph infection that proved to be MRSA.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026
  • Many of China’s hitherto top names in AI—including ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, Xiaomi cofounder Lin Bin, and Alibaba CTO Wang Jian—cut their teeth at the Microsoft Research Asia (MRSA) lab in Beijing.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 27 Jan. 2026

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